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An interesting idea, but it may be short-lived. They're essentially using a 3D printer as a poor man's 3D hologram system. Very nice application of the techno
by chton 12y ago
An interesting idea, but it may be short-lived. They're essentially using a 3D printer as a poor man's 3D hologram system. Very nice application of the technology, but once we commercialize actual holograms it'll be obsolete - in much the same way slides were replaced with monitors.
- carb 12y agoI think it's more likely that AR or VR will be used for this purpose. It's already pretty trivial because they've already created the 3D model representing the data, all they have to do is throw it into a game engine.
- chton 12y agoAR and VR still aren't quite as convenient as a real 3D model you can walk around and point at. The technology isn't there yet. But it's true, once it reaches that point it might be used for this and would replace the 3D-printed models even faster.
- ObviousScience 12y agoBut AR and VR get you one more dimension (time) than a 3D model and are much, much, MUCH easier to produce a large display from.
- btbuildem 12y agoWhat if you want to present it to a group of people and have them interact with it?
- ObviousScience 12y agoIsn't that literally a goal of the AR crowd? That we can use various methods to manipulate AR images, and that with a little geometry, we can all see the image in the same place?
- malandrew 12y agoIIRC the data bandwidth requirements for any holographic projection that isn't static is astronomical. We'll have the display technology well before we have the bandwidth technology for animated holographic display at any reasonable frame rate and resolution.